"Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"

[ryan@hcommons.social]

@janvlug im on Furilabs FL1Xs and the screen already cracked, also maps and bluetooth are really difficult. may end up on iphone soon

[felipe@social.treehouse.systems]

@dademurphy what exactly are you on about

[dademurphy@toot.community]

@skulesz @janvlug@mastodon.social @purism Pretty sure I already answered that.

If you’re using a device that isn’t compatible with Android or iOS products, you just hobbled your overall experience because you think you’re free to use a Linux phone when all you actually did was lock yourself behind a bigger wall. ‍️

Hell, you would be better off with a basic flip phone if that’s all you do, why spend money on a device that will never catch on?

[pwaring@social.xk7.net]

@janvlug Can you run apps that try to detect if you've rooted your phone, like banking apps (and in my country, even the official health app)?

[moritz@social.heiber.im]

@janvlug @Gina How do you deal with Purism‘s enablement of fascists and Nazis by allowing them to utilize their platform as a safe harbor?

PS: There are A TON of articles[^1] about them on the web concerning this topic, and you’d really be hard-pressed not to have heard of any of it; but maybe that’s the goal? “Free” hardware over anything?

[1] Example: https://anarc.at/blog/2019-05-13-free-speech/

[codo@fosstodon.org]

@dos @janvlug Thank you both for the answers. I'd love to see Purism get better and more widely available, but I'm not prepared to be an adopter yet. I used to think my requirements were quite minimal, but when using the Librem I've realized all the functionality that I've been taking for granted on /e/OS.

[sebulon@mastodon.social]

@jajo @janvlug
No, not natively or through Waydroid currently.

[cyb3rrunn3r@cyb3rrunn3r.de]

@janvlug@mastodon.social https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/category/smartphone-tablet-4 maybe???

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@dademurphy @skulesz @purism

hello troll account under one week old with no followers

you got some nice bites today!

congratulations on your boring garden variety "haha you suck. everything sucks. haha" edgelord shit

i'll bite too:

i'm old. i remember this heavy breathing bullshit about linux in the 1990s on slashdot

and how is linux doing today, my fine sir?

people are always trying new things. some suck. some are the future

that's it

you don't know the future, so fuck off shitwit

[huntingdon@mstdn.social]

@janvlug

Sure, everyone can have a Librem5 smartphone, if they want to pay double for it and triple for the monthly access and fees.

Great idea. Needs a more affordable business model.

[bob@beamship.mpaq.org]

@dademurphy @skulesz @purism

Is that anything like using MAC/Microsoft vs Linux???? Or are you just a corprite lapdog? Blocking you so i dont have to see your IQ

[wellsaid@livellosegreto.it]

@janvlug
How do you deal with banking and government apps? Those are the main pain point for me since they usually do not work without gplay services

[janneke@todon.nl]

@janvlug
Just to be sure, which ones still count as mobile tracking devices?

[stonykark@mstdn.ca]

@janvlug what languages are the APIs available in?

[dademurphy@toot.community]

@benroyce @skulesz@mastodon.social @purism How long am I supposed to wait until gatekeepers like yourself allow me to speak? Would my comment be any more/less accurate if I had been here for ten years with 1000 followers? No, only petty, ignorant people like yourself use such silly metrics.

How is Linux doing? It’s still on the outside looking in, clown. Only tech savvy people use it, most still use a Mac or PC, just like most cell phone users use Android or iOS. ‍️

[alienghic@timeloop.cafe]

@dademurphy

Dude its just a tool and all the communication features are international standards and work with the purism.

So what if it can't install popular software. That's not cutting himself off.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@dademurphy @skulesz @purism

the only thing that confuses me about loser trolls like @dademurphy is they are champing at the bit for someone to take the bait. then someone does like me, and i get the idiotic reply, then the instablock

why don't they want to play with me?

because i shove their stupid shit right back at them?

play with me trolls, i am here for you. let me help you with your weak cringe cope

[superblox@mastodon.social]

@janvlug If we want opensource mobile OSes to succeed, they need officially supported banking apps and identity verification apps. These are crucial to me but they only exist on iOS and Android.

[khleedril@cyberplace.social]

@janvlug Is encrypted messaging available? Signal?

[lil5@social.linux.pizza]

@pwaring @janvlug I think(correct me if I’m wrong) that the idea is to use the web browser and a yubikey instead of apps. If a government/bank complains about you not having an android device that’s on them to give you an alternative.

Jan is going full RMS on mobile devices, and I thanks that’s epic!